QCTIC History
The Quad Cities Trauma-Informed Consortium (QCTIC) started as a collaboration between Family Resources, EveryChild, and United Way Quad Cities in 2014. Since then, the QCTIC has engaged and educated the Quad Cities area on trauma-informed care, provided comprehensive trainings, increased sector representation, and created lasting partnerships.
Beginning in July 2025, the Quad City Trauma Informed Consortium will be housed by NAMI of the Greater Mississippi Valley.
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No matter what size your organization or program is, you are a key part of creating a healing Quad Cities. Determine where your organization or program is on your trauma-informed journey and join us to take the next step!
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The Quad Cities Trauma-Informed Consortium has a Steering Committee comprised of the following members:
Mark Mathews, NAMI Greater Mississippi Valley, Backbone Organization
Jennifer Best, St Ambrose University, 2025-2027
Anne McNelis, Transitions Mental Health Services, 2025-2027
Bob Behm, 7th Judicial District Department of Correctional Services, 2025-2027
Nicole Carkner, Quad City Health Initiative, 2025-2027
Quinn O'Brian, Unity Point, 2025-2027
View the QCTIC Steering Committee Charter to learn more about the Steering Committee's purpose, scope of work, member expectations, and structure.
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To create a community of healing, we don't all need to be in the same place, but we do need to be moving in the same direction. The Quad Cities Area Trauma-Informed Consortium aims to facilitate and support a collective impact vision for preventing trauma by developing, implementing and evaluating trauma-informed care practices across our community. This requires a common agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activities and continuous communication.
Referred to as Collective Impact, this framework involves a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems-level change.
The collective impact framework is based upon the understanding that no single policy, government entity, or organization can tackle or solve these deeply entrenched social problems alone. Moving beyond a partnership or collaboration, collective impact calls for a longstanding commitment between multiple organizations all working toward a common goal. Find out more about Collective Impact at the links listed above.
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